"Coal & tENT: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & Coal Hornet discuss IMPROVisation: 2019.11.24": Coal Hornet had been living across the street from me for 3 years before I met him. I was certainly surprised & delighted to then discover that he was a Free Jazz multi-instrumentalist improvisor & has been since 1968. How fortunate could I be? I quickly arranged for us to play & record a duet together on June 7, 2018, as part of my "365" project. We played a few more times at my house & then for the premier of the "365" movie with live sound at the Regent Square Theater in Pittsburgh on April 7, 2019. Our collaboration is now continuing as I prepare for a quintet uncert under the name "The Ticket that Exploded" in the Music Department of the Oakland branch of the Carnegie library schedlued for the beginning of 2020. As part of the preparation for this, Coal suggested that we get together to discuss our respective takes on improvisation so I drove out to his new (to him) small town home in New Brighton, PA, set up 3 cameras &.. off we went! This is the record of that. I find this to be a valuable document because Coal gets into some of his fascinating history, a history more or less undocumented elsewhere. We end with a short improvisation with Coal on guitar & me on piano. It was fun! — November 26, 2019, notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
